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Windows 7: WD's 3TB Internal HD
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19 Oct 2010
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Windows 7 x64 / Same In Your Basement. |
WD's 3TB Internal HD
Quote: A short while ago, Seagate released world's first 3TB hard drive in the form of the FreeAgent GoFlex Desk. It wasn't so exciting as the drive wasn't intended to be available in the standalone internal form. Today, Western Digital announced the availability its own 3TB and 2.5 TB internal hard drives, which are the latest in the WD Caviar Green family, that you can bring home and install into your computer. This is great news for those who want a second and large hard drive for their computer that run Windows 7 or Vista. Details... | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Inspiron 1520 (Laptop)/ Home (Desktop)
OS Windows 7 x64 / Same
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 / Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard Intel 945 / Asus P6X58D-E
Memory 4GB / 6GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS / ASUS 1GB
Sound Card Whatever Dell gave me :-( / Onboard
Monitor(s) Displays 15.4" LCD / Crappy CRT
Mouse Microsoft Presenter (Bluetooth)
PSU N/A / OCZ Fatal1ty 550W Modular
Case N/A / Antec 900
Cooling Air
Hard Drives Seagate 500GB SATA; 7200 RPM / Seagate 1TB SATA; 7200 RPM
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19 Oct 2010
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Pretty impressive that it's on 4 platters. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self-Built in July 2009
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU Intel Q9550 2.83Ghz OC'd to 3.40Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R rev. 1.1, F12 BIOS
Memory 8GB G.Skill PI DDR2-800, 4-4-4-12 timings
Graphics Card EVGA 1280MB Nvidia GeForce GTX570
Sound Card Realtek ALC899A 8 channel onboard audio
Monitor(s) Displays 23" Acer x233H
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard ABS M1 Mechanical
Mouse Logitech G9 Laser Mouse
PSU Corsair 620HX modular
Case Antec P182
Cooling stock
Hard Drives Intel X25-M 80GB Gen 2 SSD
Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black, 32MB cache. WD1001FALS
Internet Speed 15/2 cable modem
Other Info Windows and Linux enthusiast. Logitech G35 Headset.
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19 Oct 2010
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Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1 Calgary |
The timing of this is funny, given I'm awaiting delivery of a 2 TB external HD to add to my 1 TB.  | | My System Specs | | OS Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1
CPU Intel Core i5-2500K
Motherboard Gigabyte P67X-UD3-B3
Memory 8 GB Corsair Vengeance Blue DDR3-1600
Graphics Card Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 1 GB GDDR5
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster T220HD
Screen Resolution 1680x1050
PSU Corsair 650W
Hard Drives 120 GB Corsair Force SSD + 320 GB Seagate Barracuda SATA2 + 2 TB My Book Elite
Internet Speed 50 Mbps
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19 Oct 2010
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#4 | |
Windows 7 Professional x64, SP1 St. Louis, MO |
I was considering a WD Green drive, but not anymore. Eight seconds until it parks the drive?? High load cycles? No thanks. Check out this thread from WD's forums. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Studio 15 1558 Laptop
OS Windows 7 Professional x64, SP1
CPU i5-520M
Memory 8GB DDR3
Graphics Card ATI HD 4570, 512K
Hard Drives Intel 320, 120GB
Other Info Back-lit KB, web cam, 9 cell battery.
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20 Oct 2010
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#5 | |
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit |
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number self built
OS Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
CPU Intel E8400 3GHz
Motherboard Intel DX48BT2
Memory Kingston PC3-10700H 4Gb
Graphics Card XFX Radeon HD 5850 BlackEd.
Sound Card Asus Xonar DG
Monitor(s) Displays 2x Samsung SM-T220HD 22"
Screen Resolution 1680x1050 on two monitors
Keyboard Microsoft Comfort Curve USB
Mouse Razer Diamondback 3G
PSU Thermaltake ToughPower 850w
Case Thermaltake Armor
Cooling Scythe Mugen II
Hard Drives OCZ Vertex 2 120gb 3.5" (OS)
Seagate Momentus XT 500gb
Samsung F3 1Tb (games)
2x Samsung F1 1Tb
Internet Speed 8128/443
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20 Oct 2010
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Win 7 Pro x64, VM Win XP, Win7 Pro Sandbox, Kubuntu 11 Fruitland, Idaho |
I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . .  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP Pavilion a4302f
OS Win 7 Pro x64, VM Win XP, Win7 Pro Sandbox, Kubuntu 11
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 @ 3.0 Gbz
Memory 12GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB, 2x2GB
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4350 HD Graphics/Audio with 512MB
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays 1. Dell 23" SP2307, 2. Mitsublishi 40" HDTV, Hannspree 25"
Screen Resolution 1. 2048x1152, 2. 1920-1080, 3. 1920x1200
Keyboard Microsoft Wireless 2000
Mouse Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000
Case Mid Tower
Cooling Standard Fans - 5 fans (very quiet)
Hard Drives Int: 1 120 Gig SSD i
1 - 2.5" 500 USB External HDD
1 -1 Tb USB External HDD
Internet Speed 10 Mbit (realistically 500 Kbit - 1.2 Mbit)
Other Info Speakers - Bose Desktop (Excellent Sound)
1 external CD|DVD\Blue-ray Recorders/Players (Sony)
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20 Oct 2010
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W7 X-64 RTM,SUSE 11.1, XP PRO SP3 as a VM, VMware ESXi Hafnarfjörður IS |
Hi there
Wasn't a 25 MB disk drive meant to be MORE than enough storage that ANYBODY could ever want or use. Was it IBM or even a well known Mr Gates who said this when PC's first came out into the general public domain.
Not sure who said this but in the early days of PC's this amount of storage was considered as almost unrealistically high.
I see now it won't be too long before a 1PB - 1 PETABYTE drive appears (1PB = 1000 TB or 1000 * 1000 GB).
Cheers
jimbo | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built
OS W7 X-64 RTM,SUSE 11.1, XP PRO SP3 as a VM, VMware ESXi
CPU Q9400 QUAD
Motherboard P5QL-CM
Memory 8GB
Graphics Card On Motherborad
Sound Card Realtek HD audio
Monitor(s) Displays Apple Cinema display
Mouse Toshiba wireless laser
Hard Drives 4 X 1TB SATA
Internet Speed > 20MB up
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20 Oct 2010
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Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1 Geordieland, Tyne and Wear |
Currently have 6 drives for external storage, 3x 2 TB drives and 3x 1 TB drives... this 3 TB drive will be an awesome addition to my collection lol.... 12 TBs..... Yeah! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number DELL SXPS 1640
OS Windows 7 x64 Professional SP1
CPU Intel C2D T9550 2.66 GHz @ 2.793 GHz (Thanks ThrottleStop!!)
Motherboard Intel PM45
Memory 8 GB DDR3
Graphics Card ATI MOBILITY RADEON 4670
Sound Card CREATIVE XFI AUDIO NOTEBOOK
Monitor(s) Displays 16.1 WLED
Screen Resolution 1920x1080
Keyboard Built-in backlighted Keyboard
Mouse Logitech Wireless Mini Mouse
PSU 90W Dell Power Brick
Case Dell Chassis
Cooling Coolermaster Cooling Pad
Hard Drives Seagate ST9500420AS 500GB (465GiBi) 7200 RPM Drive
External Drives:-
2 TB WD Essentials x 3
1 TB WD Mybook Gen 1
1 TB WD Mybook Gen 2
1 TB Seagate
1 TB Seagate
320 GB WD Scorpio Black (enclosed)
320 GB WD Scorpio Black (enclosed)
Internet Speed 4/0.5
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20 Oct 2010
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Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Massachusetts |
Oh Boy...do I still remember when WD came up with a 40MB drive and it had to be partitioned because DOS only supported 32 MB
or even the ~24lbs 10 MB IBM drive I took out of a phased out UNIX Server of 10 years which then ran another 5 years in one of my desktops before it went to HW heaven
all of a sudden I feel so old
-DG | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP m8000n
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x86
CPU DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2600 MHz 5200+
Motherboard Asus M2N68-LA (Narra)
Memory Samsung 2GB DDR2
Graphics Card Onboard NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
Sound Card Onboard nVIDIA nForce 6100-430 (MCP61P)
Monitor(s) Displays Westinghouse 19" LED
Screen Resolution 1280x1024
Keyboard Logitech Classic KB 200
Mouse Standard HP opticle USB mouse
PSU Stock (HP)
Case Stock (HP)
Cooling Stock
Hard Drives SATA II Seagate Barracuda 500GB
USB II WD Elements 500GB
USB II WD My Book 1TB
USB II WD My Book 2TB
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20 Oct 2010
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lee  I can't even fill up a 1.5 little own. . . Don't feel bad - my 640 GB WD has 366 GB free. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number 24c Built
OS Win7 x64 Ult
CPU Intel i7-950
Motherboard ASUS PT6
Memory 12 GB DDR3
Graphics Card NVIDIA 9800GT+
Sound Card none
Monitor(s) Displays 2 Samsung SyncMaster 2343bwx
Screen Resolution 2048X1152
Keyboard Logitech cordless
Mouse Logitech cordless
PSU Thermaltake Toughpower XT W0229RU 750W
Case Antec 900
Cooling case fans
Hard Drives 1st-4 OCZ Vertex Turbos 32GB RAID 0
2nd-2 WD 640GB RAID 1
Internet Speed up to 15 MB/s
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